Jesse Ventura Quotes

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Modern morality is all about perception.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

Laws are often made to express collective ethical principles, to establish a climate of opinion …

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

Conventionality is not morality.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

You must legislate morality.

What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Morality is a social necessity

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government.

Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine our decisions, actions, and beliefs. Therefore, moral philosophy applies to everything in our lives.

One needs to know what is right and what is wrong.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

I'll never go against my morals.

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.